Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Our seven days a week production schedule cannot be stopped by sleet. And how did sleet, and not wind or fog, make it to the three things that won’t keep postal workers from completing their appointed rounds. Plus, was King Solomon the first flight attendant? And, since we’re speculative theologians, how will we juggle the anticipated lunch invitations from Princeton, Harvard and other Divinity sc...

In a very special Getting Through This After Dark edition, Scott breathlessly regales Tommy with his hot off the presses tale of the last part of his move from his childhood home in Brooklyn to Manhattan. Spoiler alert: It involves contractor bags.

Tom heroically eschews the use of his air conditioner during unusually warm and muggy LA weather. Scott comes up with two new quotations that he hopes the Bartlett family will publish. Tom suggest a book of non famous quotations. And do you have to be famous to have a famous quotation?

In this historic episode, Scott reports for the first time from the island of Manhattan. And he and Tom agree that fragile is the only word on a box that will have the desired outcome. Plus speculative history about court jesters.

It’s Scott’s last podcast from his childhood home in Brooklyn and as he prepares to podcast from his new apartment in Manhattan starting tomorrow, Tom and Scott discuss this new chapter in Scott’s life, as well as why all apartment buildings should have cheerleaders to welcome home residents.. And our latest invention idea is a small portable heater you can attach to your table for year round outd...

Our About Last Night episode starts with the Presidential debate, but then proceeds into suction cups, shaving, the Algonquin round table and, finally sophistication.

Scott discovers tiny works of art that tell a story- business cards. And especially the raised lettering engraved ones, like his Dad’s card. Tom proposes a way for ghostwriters to get the recognition they deserve with ghostwriting certificates.

While Scott luxuriates with his free print subscription to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom struggles to have his thumbprint accepted for a free one month digital trial. And they propose a trade publication, which is the opposite of Variety and THR, that tells you how poorly everyone’s career is going.

As he’s packing to move, Scott discovers a November 1988 issue of New York magazine, with a typically mean theater review by John Simon, Tom and Scott recall fondly the days of giant restaurants like Lundy’s in Brooklyn.

Tom faces a shortage of dish detergent in the Pacific Palisades, while Scott rejoices as he buys Purell hand sanitizer for the first time in almost seven months. Plus, why opening a can of worms isn’t something to worry about.

We don’t agree with Marie Kondo, and those who tell us to be “merciless “ in deciding what stuff to throw away. We think there’s no time limit on joy. Scott is putting about a hundred videotapes in storage, and Tom has saved numerous partially filled notebooks that he flips through in real time on the show.

In these times, television news pundits share their opinions and show the world their homes at the same time. We think they should always stay home, instead of appearing in studio in front of a generic skyline of an unidentifiable city.

Why just live in the present, and in the moment? We live in all of the moments, past, present and future. And we come up with ideas for 1947 cartoons, as well as making identical versions of classic old cars. And making concept cars available to everyone, too.

Scott finds letters from summer camp when he was 12 years old. Plus a Kent cigarette ad from 1964 that made creative use of the word “adsorptive”. And Tom thinks Scott’s visage should be etched onto the dime.

Which sound engineer responsible for artificial crowd noise on NFL telecasts, will emerge as a famed auteur? And our speculative history takes us back to the 1918 Spanish Flu, where we wish President Wilson had ended World War 1 since soldiers couldn’t socially distance.

Scott is moving on up to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky. Totally as an homage to The Jeffersons. And Tom shares breaking news that Scott’s alma mater Northwestern is ranked ahead of the University of Chicago in the WSJ best university rankings.

Scott tries a different kind of intervention on Tom. Instead of several non socially distanced people in a room telling him what he shouldn’t do, Scott suggests something Tom should do more often. Get out of the house. Even though that could lead to someone asking to box him on the street or force him to learn pole vaulting.

What Would We Do Without Certain Things?, a new segment, shines a plus positive light on paper towels, so we can be thrilled with them, all over again. Plus, our quest to degoon goons leads us to propose fun resorts where that process can take place.

18 days before his childhood home is sold, Scott takes Tom on a journey back to the late 1940’s, through old photos of Scott’s parents at famed supper clubs like The Latin Quarter..

Tom and Scott don’t want statues of themselves in parks or museums because, while it’s nice to be honored, statues just aren’t very flattering. A giant, weatherproof 8 x 10 glossy photo would be better.

Tom and Scott propose ending the use of the word enemy, and replacing it with a term that won’t lead to war. Out of towners. And they urge insurance companies to reimburse doctors for listening to the heart of a 4 year old girl’s doll.

Scott dares to use a public restroom at Bloomingdales. And Tom reveals his 2.5 hour power outage ordeal, two days after the fact, since he didn’t want to become the story.

The days really seem to be flying by faster than ever. Is it just our perception or is this a phenomenon that should be investigated?

Tom’s dishwasher is broken, and he is forced to wash his beloved dishes by hand in a poignant moment that takes us back to a simpler time. And Scott spins off Tom’s speculative journalism with speculative criticism, by reviewing a play that doesn’t exist.

Scott is turned down for an apartment because he doesn’t earn 50 times the rent, but he’s 50 times a better person than the leasing agent. Which as Tom points out, is an example of emotional math. Plus, let’s go to the videotape and weddings.